Dorota Walentynowicz

Dorota Walentynowicz (b. 1977, Gdańsk, Poland) works in the field of photography, new media, installation and performance. A characteristic feature of her work is the continuous process of dialectical feedback between technology and nature, theory and practice, logic and intuitive cognition.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (Photography, MA 2005), the University of Gdańsk (Classical Philology, MA 2001) and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in The Hague NL (Art-Science, MA 2007), she has recently defended a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (2022) where she currently teaches at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia. She is a laureate of numerous scholarships (including Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the Dutch Huygens Scholarship), participant of international residency programs (eg Kunsthalle in Krems, Museumsquartier in Vienna, Kunsthalle in Andratx, Apollonia European Art Exchanges in Strasbourg).

Dorota Walentynowicz’s installations and photographs have been exhibited, among others, at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, at the State Art Gallery in Sopot (individual exhibition 2015), at the WRO Biennale in Wrocław, at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, at the V2 Institute of Media in Rotterdam, at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw (individual exhibition 2011), at the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk (individual exhibition 2009), at the Museum of Photography in Amsterdam, at the Stroom Foundation in The Hague (individual exhibition, 2009), at the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Krakow, at the City Gallery in Gdańsk, at the Kunstverein in Salzburg.

Much of her current activity is connected to collective practices that aim to develop horizontal and heterarchic methods of functioning within the existing models of artistic production. She is involved in several such initiatives, including curatorial collective Pisze / Mowi / Robi, artistic collective <dienstag abend >, Plenum of Caring Persons, and Seminarium Feministyczne.

EDUCATION 

2022    PhD, Department of Intermedia and Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (PL)

2007    MA, Art Science, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Design, Music and Dance, The Hague (NL)

2005    MA, Photography, Faculty of Visual Communication, University of Fine Arts, Poznan (PL)

2001    MA, Classical Philology, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk (PL)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Individual exhibitions 

2023    Bossware, New Joerg, Vienna (AT)

2022    Cherish, City Gallery, Gdansk (PL) 

2021    The Medusa  vs the Odalisque (with Patricia J. Reis), Mz. Baltazar’s, Vienna (AT)

2018    Waschkaue: Dividing Line, Mz. Baltazar’s, Vienna (AT)

Group exhibitions

2023    Bienala Alb/Negru Editia a VIII, Centre Culturale din Satu Mare (RO) 

2023    Face to Face, The National Museum, Wroclaw (PL)

2023    Following a Common Path, Muzeum Okręgowe, Toruń (PL)

2023    7th Gdansk Biennale, Municipal Gallery, Gdansk (PL)

2023    Para bellum, WL4 Przestrzeń Sztuki, Gdańsk (PL)

2022    Da Camera, Musica Polonica Nova Festival, The National Forum of Music, Wroclaw (PL) 

2022    First Place in the Table?, Trafostacja Sztuki Gallery, Szczecin (PL) 

2022    Occupy Networks, Consulate General of Greece, New York (USA) 

2021    Cud, Oko Nigdy Nie Śpi Festival, Ostromecko (PL) 

2021    You’ll Never Walk Alone, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL) 

2020    Eksperyment Ekslibris, Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk (PL) 

2020    Occupy Project #1, Consulate General of Greece, New York (USA) 

Collective projects

2019    Flow (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 93), Grudziadz/Toruń (PL)

2018    Kupale on the Danube (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 91), Hoast, Vienna (AT) 

2017    Kupale Art, Art Pragnoz (with <dienstag abend> collective, edition 89), Bobr (BY)

Selected catalogues and books

2021    Nakład Własny. Conversations. ed. A. Grzonkowska; publisher: Chmura Foundation for Visual Culture, Gdansk 

2021    Experyment Exlibris. ed. M. Wroblewska; publisher : City Gallery, Gdansk 

2019    Opake Fotografien – Das Sichtbarmachen fotografischer Materialität als künstlerische Strategie, ed. F.Kunze; publisher : Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berlin 

2019    White Lie, exhibition catalogue, ed. S. Ruksza; publisher: Kronika, Bytom 

2017    Prototyping Spaces and Relations, ed. E.Orzechowska; publisher : State Gallery of Art, Sopot 

2017    On the path of knowledge / The phenomenon of Poznan school, ed.S.Sobczak, P. Bosacki, P.Kurka; publisher: University of the Arts in Poznan / UAP Foundation, Poznan 

Date of residency: 01.08. – 31.08.2024